v7 is in preview. Install it with dotnet tool install dotnet-affected --prerelease, and see what changed since v6.

Building the project

Issues and pull requests are welcome.

Install the SDK

The repository pins its .NET SDK in global.json and installs it locally, so it does not interfere with anything else on your machine:

./eng/install-sdk.sh

The SDK lands in ./eng/.dotnet, along with the older runtimes the test suite needs.

Activate your shell

. ./eng/activate.sh

This puts the local SDK first on PATH and sets DOTNET_ROOT. Confirm with dotnet --info; run deactivate to undo it.

dotnet build

Launching your IDE from the activated shell makes it use the same SDK:

. ./eng/activate.sh
rider Affected.sln

Test

dotnet test

The suite creates temporary Git repositories and runs real MSBuild evaluations, so it is slower than a unit-test-only run and needs git available.

Layout

Path	What it is
`src/dotnet-affected`	The CLI: commands, options, views and output formatters
`src/DotnetAffected.Core`	Discovery, Git change detection, NuGet diffing, graph walking
`src/DotnetAffected.Abstractions`	Interfaces and DTOs shared by the CLI, SDK and tests
`src/DotnetAffected.Tasks`	The MSBuild SDK — task, `Sdk.props`/`Sdk.targets`, examples
`test/`	Test projects plus the shared temporary-repository helpers
`benchmarks/`	BenchmarkDotNet projects
`docs/`	This documentation site
`eng/`	SDK install/activate scripts and packaging helpers

Working on the docs

The site is an Astro Starlight project under docs/. See docs/README.md — it includes a container-based workflow, so you don’t need Node installed to run it.